greg LYNN’S influential essay from the late nineties was a great primer on the introduction of new approaches in architecture brought on by animation software and the shift brought on by the ability to design using calulus and topological surfaces in cad programs. ideas from bergson, deleuze, leibniz, d’arcy thompson, shippbuilding and many other influences are synthesized together to create a coherent approach through which to access digital design and its potentials. the essay also describes and presents much of the terms important to architecture at the time including keyframing, blobs, warps, forces, virtual, particles, dynamics, and gradients.